Bat-forming apparatus.



D. & R. H. HAYNBS.

BAT PORMING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED IEB. 21, 1913.

Patented Sept. 23, 1913.

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D. & R. H. HAYNES. BAT FORMING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED I`BB.Z1,1913,

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BAT FORMING APPARATUS.

APPLIOATION FILED 1111121.19113.

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DANIEL HAYNES AND RICHARD H. HAYNES, OF SEALY, TEXAS.

BAT-FORMING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

latented Sept. 23,1913.

Application filed February 21, 1913. Serial No. 740,817.

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Be it known that we, Dimmi. lla'rivns and RICHARD H. Harmes, citizens of the United States, residing at Sealy, in the county of Austin and State of Texas, have invented or discovered certain new and useful Improvements in Bat-l4`orming Apparatus, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a machine or apparatus for forming bats of fibrous material, the bats being afterward inserted in tickings or coverings to form mattresses; and the invention has for its object to provide an apparatus by which the batsforming fibrous material may be evenly distrilmtcrl, and by which the mattressforming opera tion may be expeditiously carried on.

In carrying the invention into effect a distributing chamber is provided into which the disintegrated fiber, as cotton or the like, will be carried by a blast of air from a cotton gin or other suitable disintegrating machine through a flue extending from the cotton gin to about the middle of the upper part of the distributing chamber, the flue preferably having a downwardly curved discharging end portion terminating above a rocking distributer or baille plate which is caused to swing slowly back and forth for the purpose of distributing the disintegrated fibrous material as evenly as possible so that it will be deposited uniformly in the receptacle or mold below the distributing chamber. The cotton gin and the distributing chamber adjacent thereto will preferably be located on an upper floor of a building, and through which floor the distributing chamber will preferably be extended down for some distance into the upper part of a lower story of the building. On the tloorof this lower story is provided a track or guideway adapted for the reception of a traveling carriage on which will be mounted two molds or batforming boxes of dimensions corresponding in cross section to the dimensions of the, distributing chamber above, or approximately so, so that the disintegrated fibrous material will fall from the distributing chamber' directly into one or the other of the molds or bat-fori'ning boxes. These molds or bat-forming boxes are rotatively mounted on the traveling carriage so that when a bat has been partly formed the mold may be turned half way around to reverse the positions of the ends thereof, so that if, owing to the conditions of the atmosphere or weather, or to the character of the cotton or other liber being disintegrated, more of said fiber should be carried to one end of the lnold than to the other, a reversal of the ends of the mold will counteract this tendency of the unequal distribution of the liber endwise of the mold, and will result in the formation of a bat of uniform thickness at both ends.

In the present improved apparatus the molds are provided with hinged sides or doors which may be thrown open when a` bat has been completely formed, for the purpose oit' ailording convenient. access to the mold in the operation of removing the bat or of placing the same in a cover or ticking for thc formation of a mattress. l'V hen, therefore, suilicient material has been deposited to form a complete bat the carriage on which the two molds or bat-forming boxes are supported is moved in order to remove the box or mold containing the material for a complete bat to a position convenient for the removal of the bat and to bring the other box or mold mounted on said carriage beneath the distributing chamber, so that the operation of forming another bat may be carried on while the bat first formed is being removed from its box or mold and placed in ticking, or otherwise. lrior to the removal of the. bat from its box or mold the loosely' laid liber is compacted or pressed down by means of a follower which can be introduced from above into the mold through thc distributing chamber. To this end the distributing chamber is preferably provided at one end with a door which may be opened for the intrmluction of the 'follower'. .Also to permit of the escape of air from the distributing chamber the top or cover of the said chamber is preferably formed of wire cloth through which the air may readily pass without permitting the escape of the disintegrated liber.

The invention will be understood by reference to the accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 is a sectional. elevation illustrative of the improved apparatus. Fig. 2 is a partial side view thereof. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view showing the distributing chamber and its relation to the gin or disintegrating machine. Fig. It is a par tial plan view ot' the screen cover of the distributing chamber. Fig. 5 is a plan view showing the track or guideway and the traveling carriage mounted thereon, and F ig. 6 is a side view of a follower.`

Referring to the drawings, l2 denotes the frame or stand of a cotton gin which may be of any well-known form, this cotton gin comprising a driving shaft 13 having a pulley 14 to be rotated by a driving belt extending fromy any suitable source of power. rlhe cott n' gin is located on an upper floor ot' a` building, and adjacent thereto is a distributing chamber l5 into the central part of which extends a flue' I6 communicating with the chamber olf the cotton gin, and through which line thet'disintegrate'd liber coming from the gin will be carried by a blast of air created by the rotation of the saws and brushes of theY gin, or otherwise. .The flue 16 is preferably of a width equal' to the 'width of the mold, or approximately so,

and has a downwardly curved end portionl 17 terminating above a rocking baille or distributer i8 which extends from side to side of the distributingchamber l5 and is attached to a bar or shaft 19 extending across the said distributing chamber and through slots 2 0 in the' sides thereof so as to be supported by rockers 2l located outside of the said chamber. A slow rocking movement will bev imparted to the rockers 2l, for the purpose of'carrying the baille plate or distributor back and forth in the distributing chamber, thismovement being preferably effected by' a pitman 22 connecting one of said rockers with a rotating crank 23 driven by a large pulley 24 belted tov a small pulley 25 on thev driving' shaft 13 of the cotton gin. By meansr of the apparatus thus far de# scribed the disintegrated liber will be distributed with great uniformity throughout the chamber l5 so that it may be evenly showered down into a mold or bat-forming boxv located in the story beneath that in which, the cotton gin is located. floor 26 of this lower story is provided a track or runway 27 on which is mounted a traveling carriage 28 supporting two molds or bat-forming boxes 29 corresponding in horizontal dimensions to the horizontal dimensions of the distributing chamber l5, and by moving the said carriage in one direction or the other either one of these molds or bat-forming boxes may be brought beneath said distributing chamber. The sides and ends ofthefbat-forming boxes or molds preferably consist mainly of doors 34 which are hinged at their tops so that they may be raisedu to afford ready access to a completed bat when the saineA is to be removed. These doors, when closed, may be secured by any suitable means, as by pivoted latches 35. The bat-forming boxes or molds 29 are preferably pivotally mounted on the carriage 28 by means of king pins or shafts 30 extending from the Vbottoms or platforms of the said boxes to plates 3l on the said carriage;

` or this pivotal connection of the said molds or bat-forming boxes with said carriage may be otherwise effected. t

The molds or bat-forming boxes areprere erably provided with posts or legs 32 13ro- "videdv at their lower ends with casters 33 which may, if desired, run in circular tracks or guideways on or in the carriage 28, so that the weight of the bat-forming boxes or molds will be sustained by the casters to enable said molds or boxes to be easily rotated, when desired, for the purpose of reversing the ends thereof.` rilhis reversal of the ends, of the bo-xes or" molds is fredii-entry desirable in order that an even distribution of the disintegrated material may 'oe' secured,

as it sometimes occurs that, owing toA the of uniform thickness throughout its length.`

The walls of the distributing chamber l5 are preferably carried down through the upper tloor for some distance into they chamber be-` low, soV that the tops of the bat-forming boxes or molds will be closely adiacent` to the bottoms' of said walls so as to p1 event the escape of disintegrated ber at the' joint bes tween the bottoms'of the walls o said dis tributing chamber and the topof a batforming box or mold located beneath the same. Y

The rockers 2l may be held in place in any suitable manner, as by flexible'r straps 42 attached at their central parts to said rockers and at their ends to the floor by which said rockers are supported. n

1When a suflicient amount of disintegrated fiber has been deposited in a bat-forming box or mold a doo-r 36, with which the dis tributing chamber is provided at one end, may be opened and a vfollower 3.7 may be introduced into said chamberand lowered into the bat-forming box or moldbelow. The charged bat-forming box or mold may then, by a suitable traveling movement of the carriage 28, be carried to the position denoted in dotted lines in Fig. l, and asuit- V CII manner, thus attording unimpeded access to the bat for the purpose oit' removing the same or placing the same in a cover or tiel:- ing to t'orm a mattress. YFor convenience in lowering the follower a cord or rope 38 attached to or connected with said follower may be passed through an opening in the top 239 of the distributing chamber 15, said opening heilig provided with a door el() by which `it may be normally closed, and the said follower may be lifted out oit the box or mold by passing said rope over a pulley ll above the box or mold denoted by dotted lines in Fig. l. The screen top of the distributing chamber is preferably hinged at its end nearest the gin, so that it may be lilted, when desired, :for convenience of access Vto said chamber.

l? rom the foregoing it will be apparent that the present invention provides a convenient bat-forming apparatus by means of which the operation of forming bats -for mattresses may be carried on in a practically continuous manner in that a completed bat may be removed from one box or mold and placed in ticking while disintegrated liber for the formation of another bat is being deposited in the other box or mold. Also the present improved apparatus a'liords means, in the pivotal mounting oil' the boxes or molds, whereby an even distribution oit the material in the said boxes or molds may, under ditl'erent atmospheric conditions, and with ditt'ering materials, at all times be etlected.

The invention is not to be understood as being limited to the details oit construction herein shown and described, as these may be varied widely, within the limits oi mechanical skill, without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention.

`While two bat-forming boxes or molds are herein shown as being mounted on the traveling carriage, it will be understood that a larger number' ol such bat-forming boxes or molds might be mounted on the carriage by providing a carriage of sul'licient length to accomn'iodate more than two bat-iteriiiiug boxes or molds. Se far, however, as concerns the pivotal mounting oit the bat-'forming boxes or molds it will be understood that this featu re might be employed with a single bat-:forming box or mold which might or might not be mounted on a traveling carriage. 4

Having thus described our invention we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent l. In a bat-torming apparatus, the combination with a distintegrating machine, ot a distributing chamber, a tlue leading from said machine to the central upper part of said chamber where it is provided with a downturned end, a rocking distributer or baille-plate mounted in said chamber closely adjacent to said downturned end and comprising a curved surface onto which the disintegrated material discharged, and a batiiorming box or mold into which the disintegrated n'iaterial is showered from said distributing chamber.

2. In a bat-forming apparatus, the combination with a distributing chamber and means :tor conveying disintegrated material thereto, o a bat-forming box or mold located below said distributing chamber and pivotally mounted so that it may be turned end :tor end when desired.

In a bat-forming apljmratus, the conibination with a distributing chamber and means 'tor conveying disintegrated material thereto, oit a rocking distributer in said chamber, and a bat-'forming box or mold located below said distributing chamber and pivotally mounted so that it may be turned end for end when desired.

et.. ln a bat-forming apparatus, the combination with a disintegrating machine, of a distributing chamber, a flue leading from said machine to the central upper part ol said chamber where it is provided with a downturned end, a rocking distributor or ballleplate in said chamber and onto which the disintegrated material is discharged, and a pivotally mounted bat-it'orming box or mold into which the disintegrated material is showered from said distributing chaniber.

In testimony whereof we allix our signatures in presence et two witnesses.

DANIEL HAYNES. R101-[ARD Il. HAYNES.

lVitnesses lla'ium lil. VnimiLLioN, L. ELiazN Harmes.

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